About 2 weeks after I had my PM's posted that I had with 3 different people I see that it is STILL an issue where we're showing that we're signed into other people's accounts.

I saw that the user shhhhgotsleep(sp) had PM conversations with the users Raven and Whiteboy. I should not be logged into other people's accounts because of a glitch and I definitely shouldn't be able to see who they are PMing or what they're PMing.

So how about instead of deleting the thread(like you did the last one) about the privacy breech, you actually leave this up until it's actually fixed.

a good old lawsuit threat might help assist this matter. It's obvious they don't care enough about users' Privacy and well let's face it; possible safety.
I share a lot of private stuff to users via private messages and I'll be damned if another user gets to see what our discussions entail.

Earlier I was logged in as @ChaosLord12 and by accident I clicked inbox and saw this private messages. I didn't really care to see who he talks to so I obviously clicked away and returned to the main page.
Still, not everyone is like that and will definitely snoop through peoples messages.

While you guys dick around adding pointless features, you're compromising both paying and nonpaying members.

a good old lawsuit threat might help assist this matter. It's obvious they don't care enough about users' Privacy and well let's face it; possible safety.
I share a lot of private stuff to users via private messages and I'll be damned if another user gets to see what our discussions entail.

Earlier I was logged in as @ChaosLord12 and by accident I clicked inbox and saw this private messages. I didn't really care to see who he talks to so I obviously clicked away and returned to the main page.
Still, not everyone is like that and will definitely snoop through peoples messages.

While you guys dick around adding pointless features, you're compromising both paying and nonpaying members.

This time I got logged in as someone new and I think I figured out their alt because of it. But really IGN. This has been a issue since he boards were in beta. But we just learned it was a privacy issue. a couple of weeks ago. Since then we've noticed tweaks to the header and there seems to be other tweaks but no fix on a significant privacy issue??

I really don't know what they've been doing today. Well, actually, I think they've been trying to fix the login issues, but this is a pretty big side effect.

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This logging in as someone else has been happening for months now(it was still in beta when it first started happening). Originally they told us it was very superficial and we couldn't access any information of the user we were logged in as. That turned out to be a lie. Now two weeks later it's still going on and we're still able to access way more information about other users than we should be allowed to.

I know it has. I'm just saying that for today specifically, I think it's been happening because they're messing with the login system. It seems that whenever there's a login issue, this **** happens.

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I see. I'm not an engineer by any means but you'd think a large company such as IGN could figure out how to fix a problem without breaching it's customers' privacy. I don't know. Maybe I have higher standards.

But they've managed to make a whole slew of useless changes all the while. I was supportive while it was still in beta. Cuz beta gon beta but this is supposed to be alpha and it has some major(not to mention legal) flaws.

I also like how when this first happened. I made a thread about it here and they said they are aware and working on it and deleted it. I don't think they should delete a bug thread until it's fixed. It makes me wonder if they're trying to cover up how major of a glitch this is. Purely speculation but bah gawd get it fixed.

it really does, though I finally got rid of windows vista so that was a plus. I didn't want to say anything earlier because I figured IGN would finally hand down a permaban for some exploit or something trying to blame the user as per usual. I've been auto logged in as multiple mods now, not to mention 5+ normal users. I'm surprised the boards are even still online. maybe IGN just doesn't have anyone "qualified" in the office on weekends to deal with this obvious, embarrassing, and scary bug, and bug is putting it mildly.

it really does, though I finally got rid of windows vista so that was a plus. I didn't want to say anything earlier because I figured IGN would finally hand down a permaban for some exploit or something trying to blame the user as per usual. I've been auto logged in as multiple mods now, not to mention 5+ normal users. I'm surprised the boards are even still online. maybe IGN just doesn't have anyone "qualified" in the office on weekends to deal with this obvious, embarrassing, and scary bug, and bug is putting it mildly.

it really does, though I finally got rid of windows vista so that was a plus. I didn't want to say anything earlier because I figured IGN would finally hand down a permaban for some exploit or something trying to blame the user as per usual. I've been auto logged in as multiple mods now, not to mention 5+ normal users. I'm surprised the boards are even still online. maybe IGN just doesn't have anyone "qualified" in the office on weekends to deal with this obvious, embarrassing, and scary bug, and bug is putting it mildly.

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At least we all got a cool tour of the mod boards, amirite?

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no comment on that, but I do know the mods attention would be better focused on allowing threads on specific boards about this issue to remain open as this is a SEVERE security breach that most users won't bother to visit the bugs + issues forum for until it is too late and their accounts have already been accessed automatically by complete strangers courtesy of IGN.com.This isn't the sort of thing you lock/delete/ban and hope it goes away.

real talk. if these boards were a video game, they are Daikatana at this point in time, and at least that embarrassment of a game didn't give random people access to your private information.

But if I could be serious for a moment, I know myself and others do have some personal information located in profiles and PMs, so this is a major issue, Teddy.

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Seriously, I've got 7+ pages of "conversations" to go through. and a bunch are arguing about you with qdoba damnit. but theres a reason that convo was private. leave it to IGN to gain our trust and then **** it right in the ass. TRUST US THE NEW BOARDS ARE GREAT! YOU GET TO RANDOMLY LOGIN AS ANYONE, INCLUDING MODS! SOMEONE BITCHING ABOUT AN ICON? SOLVED. MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH THAT IS WORTHY OF A LAWSUIT? MEH. WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU.

the issue facing IGN ATM is that as a corporation, they have made us jump through hoops with the TOS, EULA, whatever you want to call it, it's a long winded way to proactively protect their ass from lawsuits stemming from user use and abuse. The issue is that they have ****ed up royally. They won't acknowledge this issue because if/when it goes to court, they will still be able to "plausibly deny" any sort of breach was allowed.

Will IGN fix it? maybe. they kind of have to, as their message boards are the only thing driving web traffic their way. but don't expect an apology, and don't expect an explanation.

IGN should ASAP put up a dev blog discussing the breach and what they've done to fix it. They need to regain trust, but will they? I hope they prove me wrong, but as with many board issues, this will likely yet again be swept under the rug.

Corporations like IGN feed off of collecting data, data which we users provided under certain terms. When our supposed identifiable private data gets shared with strangers in a public arena, that game changes.

At this point in time, I would like to hear from someone @ign who can start providing answers.

I had this happen to me a few weeks ago. Thankfully the user notified me and told me even though he could see everything he just wanted to get his account back and wanted to let me know. So I too have experienced this. I would ask why hasn't anyone mentioned homer or mtougeron but who knows, this thread might get deleted

The funny, no actually sad thing is that every single engineer/admin has been online today and no one has posted in here

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I know for sure mtougeron was online last night too.

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Yeah, and if you look right now, Duke-IGN one of the main engineers is on as welll

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I don't know if it's incompetence, lack of care or that it's a potential pr/legal mess but the fact that it's working on 24 hours without it being addressed to us means that they're failures in some capacity.

Sorry guys, we are aware of this issue and should get it fixed soon. I wish I had more to say but this is an ongoing matter

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This is what you said the last time this thread came up which was almost 2 weeks ago.

Leave this thread up until it's fixed please. This really should be top priority but since the beginning of this happening I've seen various other tweaks done to the board before this. I understand that different engineers work on different things but you would think they'd all stop and focus on and issue that causes breaches of user privacy. This is a pretty major security/privacy issue that's been lingering on since back when the boards were in beta.

I just talked to engineering and they are working on it. That's the best answer anyone can give at this moment in time. Hopefully they can come up with a solution!

But I agree this bug is becoming more of a problem.

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It's been a continuous problem for me actually. I was the one that had my PM's posted by another user who got logged in as me. Which turned out to be a trolls wet dream. Every damn day for about a week someone has brought it up in a troll like manner.

It's annoying to say the least to be followed around by trolls, trying to start shit so that's why for me personally I would have hoped it was fixed long ago.